CVE-2017-5200

highpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.23% (88th) EPSS

CVSS 9 · high

Is it mine?

15 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-269USLLM-inferred

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
saltstack salt≤ 2015.8.12nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.11.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.11.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.11.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.3.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.3.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.3.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
saltstack salt= 2016.3.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:saltstack:salt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI salt< 2015.8.13osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2016.11 → 2016.11.2osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2016.11.0 → 2016.11.2osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2016.3 → 2016.3.5osvUSpkg:pypi/salt
PyPI salt2016.3.0 → 2016.3.5osvUSpkg:pypi/salt

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-8r7r-x48r-pf8fSaltStack Salt arbitrary command execution in Salt-api via ssh_client2022-05-13ghsa · osvUS
Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.
PYSEC-2017-392017-09-26vendor · osvUS
Salt-api in SaltStack Salt before 2015.8.13, 2016.3.x before 2016.3.5, and 2016.11.x before 2016.11.2 allows arbitrary command execution on a salt-master via Salt's ssh_client.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-09-26modified 2026-06-17

references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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